LANSDALE — Joseph Cionzynski — the Lansdale man accused of taking cellphone photos of a young boy in a toilet stall at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom earlier this month — is free after posting bail, despite a Florida judge having issued a no-bond arrest warrant meant to keep Cionzynski behind bars until he could face the felony charge levied against him.

A clerk at District Judge Harold Borek’s Lansdale court — where Cionzynski, 59, was arraigned Aug. 14 after Lansdale police arrested him at his home on the 300 block of Perkiomen Avenue — confirmed Monday that Cionzynski posted $25,000 cash bail on Aug. 15 at Montgomery County Correctional Facility, where he was incarcerated following his arraignment.

Also on Monday, Montgomery County Commissioners Office spokesperson Jessica Willingham said that “(Judge) Borek set bail at $25,000 on the fugitive warrant on which he was arrested; Cionzynski posted bail and was released,”

The Orange County (Florida) Sheriff’s Department, which issued a warrant for Cionzynski’s arrest on Aug. 13, charged Cionzynski with one count of felony video voyeurism against a child younger than 16 years of age in connection with the alleged incident on Aug. 2.

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In an e-mail Monday, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jeff Williamson said that “we issued a no-bond felony warrant which was signed by an Orange County judge; our stance is that Mr. Cionzynski committed a felony crime and should be prosecuted in this jurisdiction as quickly as possible. However, in Pennsylvania he (was) able to bond out of jail.”

“This investigation is open and ongoing,” Williamson said. “It is our goal to bring him back to Orange County to face charges.”

According to an incident report provided by Florida authorities, Orange County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Disney’s Animal Kingdom — part of the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — on the morning of Aug. 2 after an 8-year-old boy told his mother that while he was sitting on the toilet in a men’s restroom, a man in the next stall stuck his hand under the partition and took several photographs of the boy with his cellphone.

Investigators said that the boy was able to see the man’s shoes, and after he ran out of the restroom crying and telling his mother what happened, the boy and his mother ran into the bathroom, where the boy was able to point out the man by the shoes he was wearing.

Authorities questioned the man — identified as Cionzynski by his Pennsylvania driver’s license — about the boy’s allegations, and Cionzynski told detectives that he “totally understood and was willing and eager to assist in any way he could to resolve the situation, which he feels was just a minor misunderstanding,” according to the incident report.

Detectives said Cionzynski also stated that “as a Scout Leader he takes these types of situations very seriously and would do whatever he could to help.”

After Cionzynski handed over his cellphone, investigators looked at the more than 800 photos on the phone and did not find any of the boy sitting on the toilet, but found two photos of adult genitalia, according to the report.

Cionzynski’s phone was seized, and subsequent forensic investigation of the device yielded photos of the boy, which led to the arrest warrant, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday.

Cionzynski has also been banned from all Disney property as requested by Disney security, authorities said.